Well, it looks like the old saying is true the bigger they are the harder they fall..........

I met with and photographed Gen.Petraus just as he was about to take over as the commander in Iraq, then he was back in Washington then back out to Afghanistan to run that war ......... finally he was back in Washington to become the Director of the CIA..........these are really the top military and finally spy commands......... Having been the most admired, successful and disciplined of soldiers his whole career he seems to have come to a pretty disreputable undisciplined end. He was exposed in having an affair with his biographer and forced to resign. Seems tragic at least on a personal level ........ and there might be more politics and scandal in all this too according to todays New York Daily News.

I always feel sorry for people who crash out ........ I guess I am just not that judgmental ........ I'm also feeling sorry for George Entwistle the now departed Director General of the BBC who seems to have just not been able to keep this BBC child abuse 'reporting /not reporting' thing under control at BBC's Newsnight ......... after a meteoric career of building up to finally becoming the DG of the BBC sadly he only lasted 54 days before he was forced to resign .............. sad on a personal level for him........ OK sadly Newsnight humiliated itself and the rest of the BBC on his watch ........ but even so he seemed like he was a decent well intentioned bloke if a bit of a prisoner of proceedure :-( I know people were calling for his blood ......... but I can't help feeling a tad sorry for him........

The Aljazeerah view....... not often i link Aljazeera instead of the BBC :-)))

Its all getting a bit strange now,with this `abuse` story..People coming out of every where claiming so many famous folks have abused them... Love this portrait Dude.. Hope you have fully recovered now from your rushing around.. Stay Safe Bro[reply]PaulS @ November 13, 2012, 4:11 pm

Funny, the director of the CIA gets caught having an affair because someone read his emails ?...was his password "password" ?
What an idiot.[reply]Harv.! @ November 13, 2012, 8:47 pm

nah........ he is spymaster@gmail.com ........... the password is Bond007 the same name as his dog............ carrying on an affair by email is probably not a secure idea for most tellers in the bank......... never mind the Director of the CIA.......... its just laughable :-)))

I actually think that he was a very able man, and the America owes him a big debt of gratitude for extracting it's troops relatively succesfully from the quagmire of Iraq, and turning back the seemingly relentless tide of the insurgency, by all accounts he was doing a good job with the CIA too; shame that what is essentially a private matter between two adults leads to his downfall..question, is America one bit safer because of his resignation??[reply]John Wayne, the "Green B @ November 14, 2012, 1:30 am

Yes he seemed to me a decent bloke....... and he certainly seemed to be streets ahead of his compatriots on thinking through these wars...... he made his officers watch The Battle for Algiers that shows the problems the French faced in Algerier...... it does seem odd that his private behaviour in matters of love requires his resignation....... i guess as spy chief he could potentially compramise security with such behaviour....... it does seem something of a loss to have ended up having to lose his expertise over a private affair that was apparently already over........[reply]Rooster @ November 14, 2012, 2:39 am

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